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Vito Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily on 21 February 1946. [2] In 1954, on Vito's eighth birthday, he immigrated with his family to Canada, docking at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving on to Montreal, Quebec. [3] [4] Vito was the first child of Nicolo Rizzuto and his wife
During Project Colisée, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police videotaped Arcadi visiting the Consenza Social Club 616 times to see Nicolo Rizzuto between 2004 and 2006. [2] On March 9, 2005, Thierry Beubrun, a member of Woolley's Crack Down Posse, shot dead a Rizzuto family soldier, Mike Lapolla, and in turn was shot dead by other Rizzuto family soldiers. [21]
On October 15, 2016, 65-year old Vincenzo Spagnolo, considered formerly as a mediator, messenger and advisor to Vito Rizzuto, was shot multiple times at his home in Vimont, Quebec, and pronounced dead. [130] [131] Spagnolo was close to the Sicilian faction of the family following Rizzuto's death in 2013.
Nicolo Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, on February 18, 1924.His father, Vito Rizzuto Sr. had been convicted on 23 June 1921 by an Italian military court of theft after he was caught stealing from the Regio Esercito. [1]
In the early 2000s, Vito Rizzuto is the boss of the Rizzuto crime family and is at the peak of his influence and power, while he keeps City Hall and the police in his pocket, and maintains peace with the bikers, the Irish, the Haitians and other Montreal gangs despite a botched hit on Vito which his right-hand man Declan Gardiner "takes care of."
Cédilot and Noël described Panepinto as being "Vito Rizzuto's right-hand man in Ontario" in charge of all Rizzuto family operations in Ontario. [ 1 ] In 1991, Panepinto along with his business partner in Casket Royale, Frank Natale Roda, were involved in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the man who had tried to hire a hitman to kill the boxer ...
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Vito Rizzuto visited New York on behalf of his father to appear before "the Commission" to ask for permission to kill Violi, a request that was approved. [96] However, "the Commission" did not grant their approval to kill Cotroni. On January 22, 1978, Violi was murdered under Rizzuto orders while Rizzuto was in Venezuela.